{"id":35411,"date":"2025-07-21T17:56:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=35411"},"modified":"2025-07-22T10:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:17:25","slug":"kremlin-intensifies-disinformation-attacks-ahead-of-elections-in-moldova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/kremlin-intensifies-disinformation-attacks-ahead-of-elections-in-moldova\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin intensifies disinformation attacks ahead of elections in Moldova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russian propaganda has ramped up spreading manipulations claiming the Moldovan authorities are allegedly \u201cglorifying Nazis\u201d and \u201crewriting history.\u201d Supposedly, this is being done at the behest of the EU to drag Moldova into confrontation with russia.<\/p>\n<p>This reaction by russian propagandists was triggered, among other things, by a Moldovan history textbook that refers to the Soviet period of the country&#8217;s existence as an occupation.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Moldova, at the state level, is working on reinterpreting its colonial historical legacy. However, kremlin \u2014 seeking to impose its imperial view of history \u2014 is pressuring CIS countries, including Moldova, to teach history according to russian templates.<\/p>\n<p>In attempts to derail Moldova\u2019s European trajectory ahead of elections, kremlin is intensifying disinformation campaigns against the country, circulating lies about \u201cglorifying nazis,\u201d \u201cselling Ukrainian weapons,\u201d and ramping up anti-Western rhetoric to try to influence citizens\u2019 voting behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russian propaganda has ramped up spreading manipulations claiming the Moldovan authorities are allegedly \u201cglorifying Nazis\u201d and \u201crewriting history.\u201d Supposedly, this is being done at the behest of the EU to drag Moldova into confrontation with russia. This reaction by russian propagandists was triggered, among other things, by a Moldovan history textbook that refers to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}